I’m joining a forlorn hope to call for a refusal to accept our electoral nightmare tonight, at 7pm Eastern. Do I think we’ll succeed? No. Do I think maybe we’ll be part of a movement that might nudge history a little bit? I hope so. All I know for sure is that I can’t just sit back and watch it happen with a stunned expression on my face.
I hope you’re all doing something to oppose this doom that we all seem to be knowingly hurtling towards, while reassuring ourselves it’ll all be fine. Because it won’t.
David Frum is one of the few republicans to maintan some intelctual integrity in the face of Rgnarök.
David Frum: ‘As if the lies were truth’: Ex-Bush aide explodes at alternate reality created by pro-Trump media http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/as-if-the-lies-were-truth-ex-bush-aide-explodes-at-alternate-reality-created-by-pro-trump-media/
Broken my keyboard is. Writing about Trump was too much for it.
wats this nu videum?? installed flash, still complains
Wish I could be in new york but a reatail peon’s wage isn’t exactly jet set. I’m still trying to figure out…what I can do here, besides yelling at the void on social media.
I want to become more active. i want to engage politically.
But I can’t find out how to do that.
I looked at my Representative’s website and it’s got a lot of news of where he’s been…but none of where he will be. (He’s a good guy, I’d like to meet him if I could). I don’t know what’s going on in my county politically, or even how to find out. I can’t figure out who my Delegate is, or my statehouse Senators – I guess the State electoral maps are different from the National ones? I put my address into http://whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov/ but it says “no results found”.
This friggin country…I don’t know what to do, or even how to find out what to do!
cheer assembly of protestors in each of the 50 state capitals (and major metropoles), make our voices heard.
*woohoo* [loudly], cheers, applause, cheers, *whistle*, chant, clap, clap, clap ! ! ! ! ! ! !
fnord
thank you PZ for being my proxy at these rallies. My schedule conflicts so I can only participate virtually.
My spirit (but you know what I mean) is there (as well as in Boston, my home town)
shit I honestly want to be there physically [not exaggerating] . *slapping myself as I write this* shit
Sign me up! (I actually signed myself up, but you know what I mean.) I feel a lot like rpjohnson – I’m mad as hell but I don’t know what to do about it. I’ve always been a loner and never really paid attention to social media or politics, so now I’m scrambling to catch up. It’s like one of those dreams where you realize you have an exam for a class you forgot to attend.
@rpjohnston #4:
Go to a library and ask there.
Of course.
I’ve been resisting all my life. Nothing new here.
1. Draw up survival plans, mostly financial.
I did that for the Bush Disaster and saved most of our assets. By bailing out of the stock market in 2007 a few months before the crash, like millions of other Americans. Everyone but the US government and Wall Street saw that coming a mile away.
We will be the new Doomsday Preppers.
2. Resist any way you can.
Don’t donate to religious organizations.
Do donate to your causes, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, FTB’s etc..
Speak up when it is safe.
Vote.
Any thing else you can think of.
It’s bad but it isn’t that bad. Hillary did win the popular vote by 2.8 million. Trump and his christofascists are a minority even among the voters.
@7 Libraries…I didn’t even think of that. In the days that fake news is ubiquitous on the Internet, I have to physically get in my car, go to the library and ask for who my government leaders are because Internet fails me? As a less-than-30 this is a mindblowing concept to me.
Also I’m not sure that will be helpful. One of my friends is a library page. She knows almost nothing about politics. I haven’t really…used the library, ever, but I’m not under the impression that even the “real” librarians are more than underpaid peons meant to point at sections and maintain a facade of a venerable but dying institution, much less knowledgeable about…anything. I guess if all else fails I can try that but i really can’t wrap my head around the idea of needing PEOPLE to fill in the internet’s gaps…
Well, we are underpaid peons, but most of us try to remain knowledgeable on exactly where to find that sort of information. Note the “most.”
If there’s a university nearby, you could try their library. Academic librarians are more likely to be full-time professionals and could probably find that information in a wink.
rpjohnston, try http://virginiageneralassembly.gov/index.php
I bet that video was really droll; even jocular.
Too bad about my location.
sorry
I missed putting the
/whinge tag
on my #13
PZ, saw your appearance on the huffingtonpost livestream.
Excellent.
*applause*.
Thank you.
Well done.
Enjoy “THE City”. More Metropolis than Gotham.
I see Hamilton is teasing you. To further slap you, Allegiance recently closed from Broadway, which I think was a more enlightening show than Hamilton.
So that’s another unreachable show taunting you.
safe voyage home.
cheers
At least the Electoral College has killed God, so we may expect more folks in the coming years.